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Photo credit: Wikimedia.īozdemir immediately notified the Kayseri Governor’s Office and the Culture and Tourism Directorate, who examined the site and gave permission to continue excavations to completely unearth the underground city. The newly-discovered underground structure in Melikgazi has been compared to Cappadocia (pictured) where hundreds of subterranean structures have been found. Wonderful structures emerged everywhere, like an iron workshop and a loft. There are parts resembling underground remains of settlements in Cappadocia. The underground city that we found by accident during restoration begins a few meters under the ground and has two levels. But had no idea that it was part of an underground city. "We thought that there might be storage space for food or a stable beneath the house. Nuvit Bayar, the Project Director of Guntas, the company responsible for the restoration, described the discovery to Zaman Online : They were examined by a team from Erciyes University,” said Bozdemir. “We also found some remains during the cleaning works such as human bones. He explained that what he thought was a single-storey house, turned out to have multiple levels of ancient rooms beneath it. Mustafa Bozdemir, 50, was bequeathed a house in Melikgazi five years ago and decided to carry out restoration work. The region of Anatolia in Turkey is famous for its underground cities, particularly in the region of Cappadocia where more than 40 complete underground cities and 200 underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms, and ancient temples have been found. In 2014, a home owner living in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri province in Anatolia made a surprising discovery while clearing out an area under his house – a subterranean city, of which 4,000 square metres have been excavated so far, according to a report in Hurriyet Daily News.